Innovative Placement Solutions - RCSLT Bulletin

Monia Molino and Anja Kuschmann explain how a peer assisted learning model (PAL) can help to address the shortage of placements for student SLTs

This article was published on the Spring edition of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists' Bulletin (2025). It explains how the authors run four in-house Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programmes (ICAPs) with student SLTs on placement. The placements were based on the PAL model and encouraged students to develop clinical practice with a string sense of accountability and collaboration.

The ICAPs resulted in:
- increased number of placements for student SLTs
- positive impairment-based and wellbeing outcomes for patients
- quality learning opportunities for student SLTs